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LIN8-5260 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2016-9083

Created: Dec 15, 2016    Updated: Feb 25, 2019
Resolved Date: Jan 11, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.11
Fix Version: 8.0.0.14
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Kernel

Description

drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 allows local users to bypass integer overflow checks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact, by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file for a VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl call, aka a state machine confusion bug.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9083

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